(August 3, 2013 at 12:55 am)Captain Colostomy Wrote: Question FFF's altruism all you want, GC. History has been questioning missionaries' for far longer.
Heck, ask my aunt why. She was a missionary in Liberia in '64. Her nursing skills, and bowls of gruel, were only availed to those starving enough not to mind endless bible study(on a god they previously knew nothing of). Many of the diseases she helped treat, her predecessors no doubt introduced. What a Christian sees as kindness, only becomes cruelty once the medicine and food dries up(which it did). All that was left was a newfound belief in a suddenly absent god. But hey...believe in Jesus.
On second thought, don't ask my aunt. She's too busy 'gifting' chickens to East Africans in honor of my kids' birthdays. I hope my kids don't give the avian flu to a starving child as a result.
I don't necessarily 'approve' of FFF's methods, but I definitely don't approve of Christians.
Hate to disappoint you, but we do not look for your approval or do we need it. I was talking about right here in this country but, missionary work in foreign fields are also a good point as to the hard work of Christians.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
